Sunan Abi Dawud · Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
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Chapter: Making Them Brief.
6 hadith · references 1255–1260
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Abu Dawud · 1255كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُخَفِّفُ الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ حَتَّى إِنِّي لَأَقُولُ : هَلْ قَرَأَ فِيهِمَا بِأُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ ؟Narrated Aishah: The Prophet ﷺ would pray two rak'ahs before the dawn prayer lightly so much so that I would say: Did he recite Surah al-Fatihah in them.6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1256قَرَأَ فِي رَكْعَتَيِ الْفَجْرِ قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ وَ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌNarrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet ﷺ would recite in both rak'ahs of the dawn prayer: "Say, O unbelievers" and "Say: He is Allah, the one"5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1257إِنِّي كُنْتُ رَكَعْتُ رَكْعَتَيِ الْفَجْرِNarrated Bilal: Ziyadah al-Kindi reported on the authority of Bilal that he (Bilal) came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to inform him about the dawn prayer. Aishah kept Bilal engaged in a matter which she asked him till the5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1258لَا تَدَعُوهُمَا وَإِنْ طَرَدَتْكُمُ الْخَيْلُNarrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet ﷺ said: Do not omit them (the two rak'ahs before the dawn prayer) even if you are driven away by the horses.6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1259أَنَّ كَثِيرًا مِمَّا كَانَ يَقْرَأُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي رَكْعَتَيِ الْفَجْرِ بِ آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْنَا سورة البقرة آية 136 هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ ، قَالَ : هَذِهِ فِي الرَّNarrated Abdullah bin Abbas: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to recite in both rak'ahs of the dawn prayer: "Say: We believe in Allah and in the revelation given to us" (3: 84). This is in the first rak'ah and in the second5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1260يَقْرَأُ فِي رَكْعَتَيِ الْفَجْرِ قُلْ آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْنَا سورة آل عمران آية 84 فِي الرَّكْعَةِ الْأُولَى ، وَفِي الرَّكْعَةِ الْأُخْرَى بِهَذِهِ الْآيَةِ رَبَّنَا آمَنَّا بِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ وَاتَّبَNarrated Abu Hurairah: That he heard the Prophet ﷺ recite in both rak'ahs of the dawn: "Say: We believe in Allah, and in the revelation given to us" (3: 84). This is in the first rak'ah. In the second rak'ah he recited t5 narrators